Jung-En Liu Penguin Classics Retail Price: 17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other rel ... more.
Terence Penguin Classics Retail Price: 14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Terence's subtle plots and sensitive characterization have had a lasting influence on modern theatre. In'translating' Greek New Comedy into a differend world, the Roman dramatist Terrence (c. 186-159 B.C.) gave to his plays a humanism and sen ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
This volume contains the tetralogy of plays - Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V - written by Shakespeare c. 1595to 1599. Each play possesses its own distinctive modd, tone and style, and toge ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
This collection--including The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night in the New Penguin Shakespeare text--is engagingly introduced and skillfully annotated, bringing toge ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
These four tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth in the New Penguin Shakespeare text--contain some of Shakespeare's most celebrated protagonists and finest dramatic poetry. ... more.
Sophocles Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $2.01
Based on the legend of the royal house of Thebes, King Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone are Sophocles's tragic masterpieces. This verse translation is supplemented by E.F. Watling's introduction, which places Sophocles in historical con ... more.
Sophocles Penguin Classics Retail Price: 8.95 Sale Price: $7.15 You Save: $1.8
These verse translations of four plays--Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis, and Philoctetes--exhibit the structure that set the standard for most modern dramatic works. ... more.
Henrik Ibsen Penguin Classics Retail Price: 9.00 Sale Price: $6.99 You Save: $2.01
Despite this fundamental transition, certain themes remain constant throughout Ibsen's work; the horror of self-betrayal, the destruction of joy and freedom by duty and convention and, above all, the sacredness of truth. ... more.
Aeschylus Penguin Classics Retail Price: 9.95 Sale Price: $7.95 You Save: $2
These questions, which puzzled thoughtful Athenians in the decades after the battle of Marathon, provided the theme for Agamemnon, The Choephori and The Eumenides - those grim tragedies that make up the Oresteian Trilogy. In these p ... more.
Pierre Caron Penguin Classics Retail Price: 9.95 Sale Price: $7.95 You Save: $2
It is said of Beaumarchais (1732-99) that he had only one character--himself--and that Figaro epitomizes all his creator's vices. This does not seem to have stood in the way of his success. If The ... more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
All these plays reflect the invigorating and unorthodox way in which Seneca used the spoken word. The tragedies of Seneca represents a curious branch of Latin literature. Taken from Greek drama, their legendary ... more.
Penguin Classics Retail Price: 11.00 Sale Price: $8.99 You Save: $2.01
The only surviving trilogy in Greek drama surviving from antiquity, Aeschylus follows the tale of the royal family of Argos. Built upon the foundation of Homeric legends, the Oresteia is a story o ... more.
William Shakespeare Random House, Inc Retail Price: 23.00 Sale Price: $16.1 You Save: $6.9
This volume contains the following works by Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... more.
Sophocles Penguin Classics Retail Price: 11.00 Sale Price: $8.99 You Save: $2.01
Oedipus' doomed life-trying to avoid the curse he's been cursed to bear-towers over Greek tragedy. Translated with lucidity and power, the riddles of Oedipus are potent as they ever we ... more.
Menander Penguin Classics Retail Price: 12.95 Sale Price: $10.35 You Save: $2.6
To the ancient world Menander was a poet second only to Homer; nowadays, with his tremendous influence on European drama, he provides genuinely interesting theatre. As Greek New Comedy's foremost innovator, he devised the first plays ... more.
Jean Racine Penguin Classics Retail Price: 13.00 Sale Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.01
Racine's Phedre - which is printed here in the original French facing Rawling's translation - is the supreme achievment of French neoclassic tragedy. In her amusing Foreward, Rawlings explains how this particular translation - made speci ... more.
Jean-Baptiste Moliere Penguin Classics Retail Price: 10.00 Sale Price: $7.99 You Save: $2.01
Moliere (1622-73) combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - with a deep understanding of characters to create richly sophisticated dramas which have alw ... more.
Arthur Miller Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: 18.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $5.01
The Viking Critical Library edition of Arthur Miller's dramatic recreation of the Salem witch trials contains the complete text of The Crucible, as well as extensive critical and contextual material about pla ... more.
Harold Bloom Riverhead Trade Retail Price: 10.00 Sale Price: $7.99 You Save: $2.01
Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead. From Harold Bloom's now-canonical book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, comes his surmises as to Shakespeare's own stance in regard to the magnificent hero-villain of th ... more.
Harold Bloom Riverhead Trade Retail Price: 10.00 Sale Price: $7.99 You Save: $2.01
Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead. From Harold Bloom's now-canonical book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, comes a joyous demonstration that Bottom is a comic apotheosis and not in any ... more.
Harold Bloom Riverhead Trade Retail Price: 10.00 Sale Price: $7.99 You Save: $2.01
Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead. From Harold Bloom's now-canonical book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, comes a sustained meditation on Henry IV Parts One and Two, Shakespeare's most fascinating and c ... more.
Edmond Rostand, Henry Hewes, Lowell Blair Signet Classics Retail Price: 4.95 Sale Price: $3.95 You Save: $1
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is ... more.
William Shakespeare Signet Classics Retail Price: 3.95 Sale Price: $3.15 You Save: $0.8
Unique features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare: Extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater by the general editor of the Signet series, Sylan Barnet Special introduction to t ... more.
William Shakespeare, Robert B. Heilman Signet Classics Retail Price: 3.95 Sale Price: $3.15 You Save: $0.8
Unique features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare: Extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater by the general editor of the Signet series, Sylan Barnet Spec ... more.
William Shakespeare, Russell A. Fraser Signet Classics Retail Price: 3.95 Sale Price: $3.15 You Save: $0.8
This newly revised edition of Shakespeare's King Lear features and extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, wold, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Cla ... more.
William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Clemen Signet Classics Retail Price: 3.95 Sale Price: $3.15 You Save: $0.8
Unique features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare: Extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world and theater by the general editor of the Signet series, Sylan Barnet Spec ... more.
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